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by pekk 11y ago
This lack of repairability is actually not a recent thing at all. For example, I worked a support job in the late 90s where a high proportion of Applecare complaints were resolved with "replace the motherboard." With PCs we just r
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by pekk 11y ago
I agreed with your point about Carmack's tone. But obviously someone who has the technical knowledge to program video games (slight as that actually is...) IS in a completely different ballgame from someone who, say, is trying to get r
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by pekk 11y ago
That was many years ago, and he has since had only scathing words for the platform, as far as I know.
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by pekk 11y ago
Usually, in any other area, an interface made intentionally to be unintelligible to the general public as well as a professional target audience would be derided as bad design. In the case of Haskell, it is taken as a badge of virtue, an
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by pekk 11y ago
More than one library by Kenneth Reitz can be described in this way. It is a way of complaining about the color of the bikeshed.
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by pekk 11y ago
This problem is much more serious when you are talking about opaque DSLs. Even having to retreat to dramatically different corners of a huge language is not too hot. By comparison, a garden of libraries that are all readable by anyone in co
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by pekk 11y ago
What is special about 12%? Are you saying that someone is spending excessively on housing if their rent is $500/mo and they are making $4k/mo gross income?
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by pekk 11y ago
Manning was convicted of espionage, imprisoned, and put into solitary confinement under the legal authority of UCMJ. Unfortunately, this is all legal, backed by the popular view that sentencing should be punitive and serve as a deterrent. T
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by pekk 11y ago
I think a lot of people here just aren't aware of much of the history, or have forgotten. An important reason for people being tortured was because of the Bush administration's torture policy described in John Yoo's "tor
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by pekk 11y ago
This is a lazy cop-out for people who don't really care to spend any time thinking or looking at evidence. Which might be emblematic of the real problem. Knee-jerk anti-Americanism isn't a bit more sophisticated than knee-jerk pro
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by pekk 11y ago
Not "many." You are cherry-picking a tiny number of people against a backdrop of 300 million or so.
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by pekk 11y ago
Unfortunately, this being HN, I really can't tell if you are being serious or not.
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I don't use Windows very much, because I hate using Windows. But what I will give it is that I haven't seen a blue screen in the past decade for any reason short of bad memory, overheating, dead disk. I suspect that a lot of the W
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by pekk 11y ago
A lot of people in this thread seem to think this is all about Apple not adding enough revolutionary features or something. But consider this alternate explanation: with years of experience comes a more sophisticated judgement. What used to
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by pekk 11y ago
Are you really saying that the US government is Stalinist?
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by pekk 11y ago
I would like to see category theory applied in this area, for a more rigorous model of turbo-encabulation in the abstract (independent of hardware limitations).
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by pekk 11y ago
Whether it's better than before is extremely debatable. Cross-browser compatibility was a major issue, and it has improved some. But the problem in the 90s wasn't whether you could get the UI you wanted to work, and even if that w
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by pekk 11y ago
So when we interview people, can we change the answer to "I would profile it and see" from the answer based on Big-O from the textbook? One can dream.
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The real thing makes me physically cringe, so I would count that as a success.
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This is really sad. I can't support FSF any more. I agreed with their mission, but I don't agree with Snowden's.
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Have you used both? You can commit a subset of changed files in most version control systems, but it isn't smart because you didn't test that state and it's relatively easy to garble files. Not having the index is a very prac
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by pekk 11y ago
Too much of what gets called "criticism" comes from people who aren't really qualified to make that criticism, and is expressed in a way that is not civil or objective or relevant, let alone constructive. Some critics are jus
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by pekk 11y ago
If you are trying to make a language that doesn't need a different syntax for logic and layout, do you not end up with a templating language similar to PHP? Is this the right goal?
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It is the people who LIKE putting logic in templates who want Turing-complete template languages with all the features of the host language. If you don't do much or any logic in templates, you have no reason to want that. It sounds to
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by pekk 11y ago
I have a vague question: how can you avoid putting emphasis on memory management, to the extent Rust does, without introducing mandatory garbage collection?
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The implication that a developer is junior if they mainly use one language is completely absurd.
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by pekk 11y ago
Is there a reason it is not possible to train new employees in these very specific things you want?
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As someone who is mostly a spectator lagging months behind the JS framework du jour, it would be helpful if these discussions were a little less personal and a little more objective, even if cooperation isn't in the cards. I really do
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We shouldn't just be shooting from the hip and selling, we should be actually trying things out to see what works better. Obviously voice is not a good idea for everything.
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People can have valid, informed opinions even if they aren't rich bigshots with fancy titles. Distinguishing people according to how many years they have been pushing buttons in the industry and talking themselves up as "A players

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